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San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, nd. Paperback. 5 x 8" sheet of blue paper, folded once, with bird device to front panel. Some faint handling creases else fine. An advertising leaflet offering the services of the press, suggesting that they can produce a wide variety of material, from stationary to reproduction... More

Lisboa: Casa Portugueza, 1888. First edition. 8vo, 240 pp., bound in crimson calf-backed marbled boards, gilt titles. Text in Portuguese. An early work of Portuguese criminology by the noted poet and criminologist, written while he was deputy director of the Central Jail of Lisbon, an institution of which he would... More

Amsterdam: Lont, 1980. First edition. Small oblong 4to, unpaginated. Photographically illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in Dutch. A striking photobook which documents the protests ollowing the eviction of squatters on the Vondelstraat in Amsterdam in 1980. The title reproduces contemporary graffiti and can be translated "Be Patient... More

Los Angeles: Phantom Productions Presents, 1982. 8 1/2 x 11", original xerox. Illustrated with a drawing by Shawn Kerri. Flyer for this Friday, March 12 show at the Ukrainian Culture Center in Los Angeles, a far-flung bill featuring Bad Brains, with the Lewd and JFA opening. Some faint rippling to... More

New York: Baha'i Center of New York, [1968]. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed from drawing and typescript. Flyer for this 1968 event at the Baha'i Center in New York City. Miscut, with part of the title absent; folded twice. Date written neatly in ink at lower margin. Good only. More

London: Fleetway Publications, 1959. First edition. 12mo, 64 pp, staple-bound and glued into printed wraps illustrated by Symeoni and Marc Stone. Illustated throughout the text with line drawings by Margaret Higgins. Published as No. 435 in the Sexton Blake Library. First and only edition of this Beat Generation exploitation novella... More

New York: Ork Records, [1977]. 14 x 17", black and white xerox from photograph and typescript. Overall creasing; very good. The original poster announcing Lester Bangs' punk "debut", at CBGB's in June of 1977. The poster announces that his band will consist of J. D. Dougherty, Robert Quine, Jody Harris... More

Mississauga, Ontario: Pirates of Doom, [c. 1985-86]. 4to, each issue xeroxed in black and white and stab-stapled. The first two issues, and, we believe, all issues published of this mid-1980's Toronto hardcore fanzine out of Ontario with notable skateboarding content and lots of publication specific photographs. Scene reports for Canada... More

Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1982. First edition. 8vo, 422 pp, bound in brown buckram with the title stamped in black at the spine. Illustrated with b/w and color plates. Of a total edition of 740 copies, this is one of 240 numbered copies with a signed and dated photograph housed... More

Lausanne: L'age d'homme, 1984. First edition. 8vo, 271 pp, printed wraps. Includes bibliography. Text in French. This issue of the longrunning periodical devoted to research into Surrealism focuses on Raymond Roussel, an essential monograph on the writer. Includes Jacques Perriault's essay on Algorithms in Roussel's work, a lexicology of Locus... More

Bruxelles: Le Groupe Surréaliste-revolutionnaire en Belgique, 1947. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2", printed in red on beige paper. Important manifesto by the group announcing the landmark conference, and distancing themselves from Breton, which was probably penned by Dotremont. As well as marking the split from the Breton Surrealists, this document... More

Berkeley: Sexual Freedom League, c. 1965-66. 2 1/4 x 3 7/8", offset printed on red card stock with rounded tips. Filled out with the member's name, and signed by the secretary of the league, with an expiration date of 10-7-66. With IWW 450 printing slug, and the number 17 written... More

Mountain View, CA: Pacific Studies Center, 1977. First edition. 8vo, 62 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A comprehensive evaluation of the impact of the growth of Silicon Valley as a technology center, and the negative impacts on Santa Clara County. The authors cover the history of the area as well as the... More

New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, 1966. First edition. Foolscap format, 31 pp., mimeographed, stab-stapled covers. The 13th and final regular issue of the seminal little mag of the second generation of the New York School. This issue includes work by Joe Brainard, Ted Berrigan, William Saroyan, Dick Gallup, Pierre... More

New York: [1964]. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed from stencil drawing and holograph. Poster designed by Joe Brainard. The poster for this very early reading at the famed downtown poetry venue Le Metro. According to the Poetry Project website, Ted Berrigan, in his diaries, notes that this was the first... More

New York: Lorenz Gude, 1963. First edition. Foolscap, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and stab-stapled into an offset printed cover by Joe Brainard. Collated and complete against Birmingham. With some minor ink corrections to the Harry Fainlight contributions, likely in the editor's hand. Conributors include John Ashbery, Ron Padgett... More

New York: Lorenz Gude, 1963. First edition. Foolscap format, mimeographed on rectos only; stab-stapled. With single word holograph addition"and" in pencil to Ted Berrigan's poem "Sonnet XXXVI". Early number of the little magazine, which was of of primary importance to the formation of the second New York School. Early issues... More